Andrew Gilder

Director, Climate Legal, South Africa

Andrew Gilder is one of South Africa’s leading private sector environmental, climate change and carbon markets lawyer – he is a Director of Climate Legal, with more than twenty-three years’ legal practice experience specialising in climate change (mitigation and adaptation), climate finance and development, carbon markets, carbon tax, environmental and energy law, policy and governance. His practical experience extends over a range of African jurisdictions, including advice to public and private sectors on the development and implementation of climate change, climate finance, carbon markets, carbon tax, environmental and energy law, policy and governance as well as regulatory and transactional advice to industries, foreign embassies and municipalities on the implementation of infrastructure development projects. His practical experience includes advising government, businesses and industries on climate change policy development and its implications, including climate change business risks and opportunities, assessing commercial relationships against evolving climate change policy and regulation and relevant contractual considerations, as well as advising on, negotiating and drafting of commercial contracts required to secure financial and logistical positions in the carbon market. He is also responsible for drafting the South African Climate Change Act 2024, for the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, together with related legal instruments, and was extensively involved in South Africa’s adaptation legal and policy alignment process. Andrew has worked on climate change legislation and strategy in Zimbabwe, Thailand, Mongolia, The Seychelles and the Southern African Development Community and has been recognised as a leading lawyer by PLC Which Lawyer? 2012 (Environment, South Africa), Best Lawyers 2018, 2020–24 (Environment, South Africa) and Chambers and Partners 2021–2024 (Environment, South Africa), and was shortlisted for an African Legal Award, in 2015. Andrew is the co-editor and co-author of three seminal works in the South African climate change and carbon market arena, namely: Climate Change Law and Governance in South Africa (Juta, 2016) (South Africa’s first comprehensive treatise on climate change law and governance), Concise Guide to Carbon Tax (LexisNexis, October 2020) and Comprehensive Guide to Carbon Tax (LexisNexis, March 2022).

Andrew Ocama

Coordinator, East Africa Alliance on Carbon Markets and Climate Finance

Andrew Ocama is a seasoned sustainable development professional with more than 14 years’ experience in the carbon markets. He has served in several carbon asset development management and consulting roles in the region and led teams to remarkable degrees of measurable success in both the Gold Standard and CDM. He is a long-standing supporter of the Alliance and has been available to contribute to several consultations regarding carbon market systems formation especially with regard to Article 6. He took on the role of the Alliance coordinator in the fourth quarter of 2024 and is leading on the implementation of the organizational strategy, institutional growth, and the delivery of projects, mainly country structural priorities, with regard to readiness for carbon markets access and climate finance. He most recently served as an embedded Climate Finance Advisor working with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change in Ethiopia supporting the Ministry of Planning and Development in the development of systems for carbon markets and the sovereign wealth fund in the development of a climate strategy and a pipeline of projects. Before that, he served in Senior Management roles with Evidence Action, leading in the issuance of more than 2.4 million carbon credits certified under the CDM and Gold Standard. He previously led country programs for Co2balance in Uganda and Rwanda and has served as a consultant on development of African clean cooking and hydro power carbon projects with the South Pole Group.

Anelisa Matutu

Head: Commodities, Capital Markets, JSE

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Angela Churie Kallhauge

Executive Vice President – Impact, Environmental Defence Fund

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Mathis Granjon

Trader, Green Steps, Netherlands

Mathis Granjon is Head of Carbon Markets at Green Steps, where he leads the company’s carbon trading and sourcing strategy. With a background in mathematics and science from ECSP, he began his career as an LNG trader at Tamoli before moving into hedge fund fundraising in the US. His combined experience in energy trading and finance equips him to navigate the evolving carbon markets with both commercial insight and a strong focus on sustainability.

Nick Marshall

Co-founder & Head of Carbon TASC

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Dr. Olufunso Somorin

Regional Principal Officer, AfDB, Kenya

Dr. Olufunso Somorin is a Regional Principal Officer at the African Development Bank. He leads the Bank’s work on climate change and green growth in the 13 countries of the Bank’s East African region. This includes supporting countries’ access to climate finance for climate actions, and mainstreaming climate change in policies and programs. He leads strategic dialogues with public and private institutions on policy frameworks for managing local/regional socio-economic issues, climate change, renewable energy, carbon markets, infrastructure, ESG and inclusive growth. Between 2013 and 2017, he coordinated the Bank’s work on addressing fragility and building resilience within the Horn of Africa. In the last 13+ years in the Bank, he has been directly involved in the design, appraisal, and supervision of more than 300 development projects across multiple sectors, worth more than USD 20 billion. Over the last 17 years, Dr Somorin has published more than 50 articles on climate policy in Africa and has spoken at 300+ conferences and events.

Olivia Tuchten

Principal Climate Change Advisor, Promethium Carbon, South Africa

Olivia Tuchten is a Director at the Promethium group of companies, which is a multi-disciplinary team of independent and passionate carbon and climate change advisors.
She represents Promethium on the Executive Committee of the Project Developer Forum, a collaborative association of companies and practitioners that are developing and financing greenhouse gas emission reduction projects around the world, as well as the ISO Technical Committee 207 (Environmental Management). In her personal capacity, she is a UNFCCC nominated expert and was also on the Article 6.4 Mechanism Roster of Experts as a “Methodologies Expert” until March 2025.
She holds a Masters in Business Administration and undertook her research dissertation on the advantages of strategic alliances in the South African renewable energy industry, with specific reference to the first phase of the recent Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme undertaken in South Africa to drive development of the renewables sector.
She has worked in the climate sector for over 15 years, and has been involved in the development, registration and issuance of carbon offset projects for this length of time. Her passion is to develop and grow carbon markets in Southern Africa and across the continent.

Lawrence Cole-Morgan

Global Markets: Lead, Carbon Credit Trading, Standard bank

Lawrence Cole-Morgan holds a law degree from the University of Birmingham and is a UK-qualified solicitor. He has also recently obtained a master’s degree in Environmental and Energy Law, also from the University of Birmingham. Lawrence spent 5 years as a banking and finance lawyer with leading English and New York law firms before moving into banking, where he worked in structured finance for Bankers Trust and Deutsche in London, Singapore, and Tokyo. In 2010, Lawrence joined Standard Bank’s Investment Banking team, where he worked on numerous financing transactions, and in 2022, he moved to the Global Markets division of Standard Bank to set up the bank’s carbon credit trading and finance business.

Heather McEwan

Regional Representative, Africa, and the Middle East - Strategy, Policy, and Markets Department, Verra

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Ben Taylor

CEO, Agora Global Ltd

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Javier Manzanares

CEO, ALLEN MANZA

Javier Manzanares Allen is a leading expert in the management of international
organizations and finance, with more than 25 years of experience in multilateral
development banks and financial institutions. Throughout his career, he has worked
closely with political leaders and key actors in multicultural and complex contexts, focusing particularly on decision-making related to climate investments and operations. He currently serves a ls o as Senior Consultant on Carbon Markets and Climate
Finance at the World Bank, advising middle-income countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin
America on the design of regulatory frameworks, governance structures, and
implementation mechanisms aligned with the Paris Agreement. He has played an
active role in shaping voluntary carbon markets in Co lomb i a , El Sa lv ad or, Egypt and
South Africa and in evaluating emissions trading systems (ETS) in Colombia and
Brazil, contributing to the strengthening of national climate policie

Bernardin Uzayisaba

Carbon Market Programme Specialist, UNDP

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Charles Nweke

Venture Building Engagement Lead, Catalyst Fund

Charles Nweke is an impact innovation and strategy consultant with a strong track record supporting early-stage ventures across Africa to scale climate solutions and unlock carbon financing. As a Venture Building Engagement Lead with Catalyst Fund (BFA Global), Charles leads the firm’s carbon market engagement strategy — providing hands-on support to portfolio companies in assessing carbon credit potential, structuring investment-ready projects, and navigating the complexities of verification and certification.
He also led various external carbon credit research initiative, including Catalyst Fund’s research mapping Africa’s voluntary carbon market (VCM) landscape and producing a continent-wide carbon buyers’ database and interactive dashboard. These insights are helping founders identify viable credit pathways while guiding ecosystem stakeholders on scaling African-led climate finance solutions.
Charles, also an Edtech founder, brings over a decade of consulting and energy sector experience across McKinsey & Company, Infosys, and Santos Ltd., with project work spanning carbon market design, blended finance, and energy transition strategy in over 10 countries. He holds an MBA from IESE Business School, Spain, a master's in Energy & Resources from University College London, and is a Chartered Professional Engineer.

Fenella Aouane

Managing Director – Head of Carbon Pricing, GGGI

Fenella is Head of Carbon Pricing and a Managing Director at GGGI, leading a global team supporting governments to participate in carbon markets and overseeing multiple carbon funds purchasing ITMOs. With over 25yrs in commodity markets she has been involved in CDM primary markets completing multiple award-winning trades and starting the first public/private program with a UN entity to support project development in Africa. She’s also built and led multiple trading and brokerage teams for banks and trading houses such as Natixis and Cargill focused on energy and derivative markets.

Ibrahim Shelleng

Senior Special Assistant to the President, Government of Nigeria

Mr. Ibrahim Abdullahi Shelleng is the Senior Special Assistant to the President (of Nigeria) on Climate Finance & Stakeholder Engagement.
. Shelleng is also the Secretary of the Intergovernmental Committee on National Carbon Market Activation Plan (NCMAP) and serves as a member of the Presidential Committee on Climate Action and Green Economic Solutions, as well as the Presidential Steering Committee on Project Evergreen.
Mr. Shelleng, who is a chartered stockbroker (ACS) and Associate member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments (CISI) UK, has served in leading roles across multiple financial institutions, and was Head of Business Development for the Nigeria Mortgage Refinance Company PLC (NMRC) before his appointment as Senior Special Assistant to the President.

Kent Davis

Partner, Webber Wentzel

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Lize Kok

Carbon Portfolio Manager, TASC

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Mandy Rambharos

CEO, Verra

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Mkuthazi Steleki

Director: Climate Change Developments and International Mechanisms, Department of Fisheries Forestry and the Environment (DFFE)

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Shamini Harrington

Senior Executive: Climate Change GHG Management Sustainability, Minerals Council South Africa

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Reshma Shah

Lead, Carbon Markets, FSD Africa, Kenya

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Muireann Mageras

Global Head of Sustainability Strategy, Hartree Partners

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Olu Ademuwagun

Chief Executive Officer, NOBLESSE GREEN ENERGY

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Ravi Raichoora

Special Advisor Carbon Markets and Climate Finance African Union Development Agency – NEPAD

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Dominic Wilhelm

The Global Trust Project

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Colin Porteous

CEO, Peace Parks Foundation

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Dorah Modise

Executive Director, Presidential Climate Commission

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Erisa Senerdem

Global Lead, Carbon, Argus Media

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Fenella Aouane

Managing Director – Head of Carbon Pricing, GGGI

Fenella is Head of Carbon Pricing and a Managing Director at GGGI, leading a global team supporting governments to participate in carbon markets and overseeing multiple carbon funds purchasing ITMOs. With over 25yrs in commodity markets she has been involved in CDM primary markets completing multiple award-winning trades and starting the first public/private program with a UN entity to support project development in Africa. She’s also built and led multiple trading and brokerage teams for banks and trading houses such as Natixis and Cargill focused on energy and derivative markets.

Hugh Salway

Senior Director, Market Development and Partnerships, Gold Standard

Hugh Salway is Senior Director for Market Development and Partnerships at Gold Standard, one of the world’s leading carbon crediting standards with over 3500 projects in more than 100 countries worldwide. In this role, Hugh is responsible for Gold Standard’s partnerships with the government, corporate, investment and project development communities, as well as leading work on capacity-building, advocacy and initiatives. Prior to joining Gold Standard in 2021, Hugh worked for eight years in the British Government, most recently as its Head of International Carbon Markets, as well as other roles in HM Treasury, the Cabinet Office and the Department for Energy and Climate Change.

Laura Lahti

Head of Impact, Camco

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Madeleine Garlick

Africa Director, One Carbon World

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Maxwell Gomera

Resident Representative of UNDP South Africa and Director of the Africa Sustainable Finance Hub, Africa Region

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Nicole Dewing

Co-Founder & Managing Director, Africa Carbon & Commodities

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Shalendra Subramoney

Senior Manager Sustainable Business Mechanisms, Strategy and Sustainability, Business Building Strategy and Technology, Sasol

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Stella Napanu

Indigenous Peoples Outreach and Policy Senior Manager, ICVCM

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Wakina Mutembei

Sustainability Lead, Kenya Airways

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Kyoo-Won Oh

Senior Underwriter, Carbon Finance Lead, MIGA

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Lloyd Vas

Head of Carbon Trading, WeAct

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Anthony Nyong

Director Climate Change and Green Growth Department, African Development Bank

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Caroline Tixier

Policy Officer, European Union Delegation to South Africa

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Ephraim Mwepya Shitima

Chair, African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change (AGN); Director, Climate Change Department, Ministry of Green Economy and Environment

Ephraim Mwepya Shitima is the Director of the Department of Green Economy and Climate Change in
Zambia. He has also served as Zambia’s National Focal Point under the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) -2016 to 2023, Chaired the African Group of Negotiators on
Climate Change from January 202 1to December 2023, serving as Chief Negotiator for Africa at COP-27 in
Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt in 2022 as well as Dubai, the United Arab Emirates in 2023.
Mr. Shitima is an expert on national and international climate change policy and practice with experience
spanning over twenty years in both policy formulation, implementation as well as climate change
negotiations under the multilateral UNFCCC negotiation process. He has worked for the Zambian
Government on environmental issues for over 24 years

Fidoh Kens Ochieng

CEO, WICCARE Africa

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Herman Neethling

General Manager, Shell Nature Based Solutions Europe, Middle East and Africa

Hirander has extensive electronic trading and FinTech expertise spanning over 28 years, with successful syndication to investors and substantial exits.

He is Co-Founder and Chairman of GMEX Group and its COP28 award-winning climate fintech platform-as-a-service ZERO13. He is one of the Top 10 influential business leaders of blockchain technology in the UK All Party Parliamentary Group reports. He is also featured in LATTICE80’s Top 100 influencer list for the UN Sustainable Developments Goal agenda for pioneering blockchain technology solutions. Hirander is a regular speaker at A-List events having recently had multiple speaking engagements at COP28 UAE and COP29 Azerbaijan; at Davos during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting; the Sustainable Finance Network (AgreFin) of Arab Countries hosted by the Arab Monetary Fund; the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Summit and the Connected Africa Summit hosted by the Government of Kenya. Hirander has also been a TEDx speaker on topics such as “democratisation of the individual, change is the only constant”.

He was awarded the Most Influential CEO 2024 - UK (Carbon Credits) by CEO Monthly and is also recognised among the top 100 most influential voices in Fintech on LinkedIn in the UK in 2025. Has a successful prior $365m exit co-founding Chi-X Europe.

Isaac Bosire

Senior Special Assistant to the President, Government of Nigeria

Mr. Ibrahim Abdullahi Shelleng is the Senior Special Assistant to the President (of Nigeria) on Climate Finance & Stakeholder Engagement.

Mr. Shelleng is also the Secretary of the Intergovernmental Committee on National Carbon Market Activation Plan (NCMAP) and serves as a member of the Presidential Committee on Climate Action and Green Economic Solutions, as well as the Presidential Steering Committee on Project Evergreen.

Mr. Shelleng, who is a chartered stockbroker (ACS) and Associate member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments (CISI) UK, has served in leading roles across multiple financial institutions, and was Head of Business Development for the Nigeria Mortgage Refinance Company PLC (NMRC) before his appointment as Senior Special Assistant to the President.

Justin Smith

Head of Scale, Sustainable Finance Coalition

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Margaret Athieno Mwebesa

Commissioner, Climate Change Department, National Focal Point, UNFCCC, National Project Coordinator, Investing in Forests and Protected Areas for Climate Smart Development Project Ministry of Water and Environment

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Samantha Petersen

West Indian Ocean Seascape Lead, WWF Africa

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Tomas Sales

Special Advisor, UNDP Africa Sustainable Finance Hub (ASFH)

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Wouter Drinkwaard

Business Development Manager, Shell

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Bianca Gichangi

Regional Lead - Africa Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI)

Bianca is the Regional Lead for Africa at the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI). She recently completed a secondment as a Carbon Markets Advisor to the Office of the Special Envoy for Climate Change in the Executive Office of the President of Kenya. During her tenure, she played a pivotal role in shaping Kenya's policy and regulatory framework in alignment with the President’s vision of attracting carbon finance for Kenya’s green growth. She also organized the inaugural Kenya Carbon Markets Conference in March 2024, bringing together key stakeholders in a collective effort to participate in high integrity carbon markets. Now back at VCMI, her role focuses on leading delivery of VCMI strategy across Africa, including the scale up of VCMI’s access strategies . Prior to VCMI, Bianca was the Coordinator of the Eastern Africa Alliance on Carbon Markets and Climate Finance where she led capacity building activities on carbon markets for government and non-state actors. Her experience also extends to serving as a Lead Coordinator and negotiator for Article 6 for the Kenya Delegation at climate change negotiations.

Charlotte Scott

Venture Building Engagement Lead, Catalyst Fund

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Duncan Ward

Group Managing Director, TransEnergy Global

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Estherine Lisinge Fotabong

Director, Agriculture, Food Security and Environmental Sustainability, African Union Development Agency – NEPAD

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Franz Rentel

Managing Director, Anthesis South Africa

Franz is a carbon markets and sustainability professional with over 20 years of experience in sourcing, structuring, and developing carbon offset projects across Africa and internationally. His expertise spans carbon project origination, deal structuring, financial modelling, and stakeholder engagement.
He holds a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry, an MSc in Environmental Management, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Executive Management.
As the Managing Director of Anthesis South Africa, Franz leads the development of carbon offset projects and oversees carbon credit trading. He has sourced or developed more than 30 carbon projects globally, including household biogas in Cambodia, efficient cookstoves in Kenya, composting initiatives in Egypt, and renewable energy and waste projects in South Africa.
He is passionate about leveraging carbon finance to drive climate impact across Africa, with a focus on scaling nature-based solutions such as Anthesis’s flagship AgriCarbon programme

Jonathan First

Senior Advisor, Climate Policy Initiative

JONATHAN FIRST spent 18 years in investment banking in London, Toronto and Johannesburg and 9 years in development finance in Southern Africa after qualifying as a lawyer. Since 2012 Jonathan has focused on climate focused development finance and impact investment in Sub Saharan Africa.
At the Development Bank of Southern Africa, Jonathan developed innovative structured finance solutions and sourced funding for large infrastructure projects in SSA. He led the DBSA’s initiative to create a green bank which culminated in the establishment of the GCF co-funded Climate Finance Facility in 2018. Jonathan is currently the chairperson of Africa’s first Green Outcomes Fund and a senior advisor to Climate Policy Initiative, the secretariat for the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance. He was also part of the task team that set up the Impact Investment National Advisory Board in South Africa and a past board member and Advisor to Impact Boards, Emerging Markets.

Lorna Ritchie

Policy Director, Integrity Council on Voluntary Carbon Markets (ICVCM)

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Marc Baker

Director & Co-Founder, Carbon Tanzania

Raised in Tanzania, Marc is an experienced field biologist, a trained environmental scientist and a dedicated lifelong conservationist. Marc is the Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Level and its partner company Carbon Tanzania, in this role Marc identifies and oversees all aspects of project origination and design, as well as managing collaborations with Carbon Tanzania’s partners in the private and government sector. Marc founded Carbon Tanzania in 2007 driven by the need to find innovative and long-term solutions to the degradation of nature, with a specific focus on habitat loss. Carbon Tanzania validated it’s first REDD project in 2011 and now manages four REDD projects across 22,000km of dryland forest in Tanzania. Carbon Tanzania has led the development of nature-based climate solutions in Tanzania, and is globally recognised as a leader, having won two international awards. At Level we are building on 15 years of experience to innovate the application of biodiversity credits to achieve habitat and biodiversity protection.

Paul Muthaura

CEO, ACMI

He is an Independent Board member of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants; British American Tobacco (BAT) Kenya; ICEA LION Asset Management; and the Financial Sector Deepening Trust, Kenya.

He has previously been the Chief Executive Officer of ICEA LION General Insurance Kenya, the first African member of the Financial Stability Board TCFD insurer pilot group. Prior to that, he was the Chief Executive of the Capital Markets Authority of Kenya. In his term at CMA, he was the Africa and Middle East Regional Chair on the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).
An Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Certified Public Secretaries, he holds qualifications from University of Warwick, London School of Economics and Political Science, Maastricht School of Management, KCA University and the Academy of Executive Coaching.

Roland Hunter

Regional Lead for Business Development – Africa, South Pole

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Shaun Slabber

Co-Founder & CEO, Crunch Carbon

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Shikha Sharma

Global Technical Lead for Climate Change projects, SGS Group

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Storm Patel

Commercial Director, TASC

Will Gifford

Policy Manager, Aviation & NCS Lead, IETA

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Chidalu Onyenso

Founder & CEO, Earthbond

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Edwin Cogho

Carbon Portfolio Head TASC

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Francesca Cerchia

Global Head of Climate Solutions, SGS

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Ousmane Fall Sarr

Coordinator West African Alliance on Carbon Markets and Climate Finance

Robin Bartmann

Chief Operations Officer, Vlinder

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Toni Heigl

Founder & CEO, CarbonWise Consulting

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Flora Ji

Vice President - Shell Nature Based Solutions, Shell

Flora Ji leads Shell’s global Nature Based Solutions (NBS) business. She and the team focus on the development of high-quality natural carbon sinks with environmental and social co-benefits, as well as nature-based market and customer solutions that can contribute to climate change mitigation.
Shell’s NBS business invests in activities that protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural ecosystems, including forest, agriculture, wetland, grassland, and coastal ecosystems. The business takes on long-term commitments in NBS projects, working closely with local communities, governments, NGOs, and other experts to ensure that the projects invested in make a demonstrable difference.
Flora joined Shell in 2006, and has worked across Downstream and Upstream in operational, commercial, and business management roles in China, the Netherlands, Kazakhstan, and Singapore. She holds an MBA from IMD, Switzerland.

Gevano Dantu

CEO & Co-Founder, African Carbon Coin (ACC)

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Hirander Misra

Co-Founder and Chairman, GMEX Group and ZERO13

Hirander has extensive electronic trading and FinTech expertise spanning over 28 years, with successful syndication to investors and substantial exits.

He is Co-Founder and Chairman of GMEX Group and its COP28 award-winning climate fintech platform-as-a-service ZERO13. He is one of the Top 10 influential business leaders of blockchain technology in the UK All Party Parliamentary Group reports. He is also featured in LATTICE80’s Top 100 influencer list for the UN Sustainable Developments Goal agenda for pioneering blockchain technology solutions. Hirander is a regular speaker at A-List events having recently had multiple speaking engagements at COP28 UAE and COP29 Azerbaijan; at Davos during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting; the Sustainable Finance Network (AgreFin) of Arab Countries hosted by the Arab Monetary Fund; the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Summit and the Connected Africa Summit hosted by the Government of Kenya. Hirander has also been a TEDx speaker on topics such as “democratisation of the individual, change is the only constant”.

He was awarded the Most Influential CEO 2024 - UK (Carbon Credits) by CEO Monthly and is also recognised among the top 100 most influential voices in Fintech on LinkedIn in the UK in 2025. Has a successful prior $365m exit co-founding Chi-X Europe.

James Mansfield

Managing Director, Finance Earth

Mr. Ibrahim Abdullahi Shelleng is the Senior Special Assistant to the President (of Nigeria) on Climate Finance & Stakeholder Engagement.

Mr. Shelleng is also the Secretary of the Intergovernmental Committee on National Carbon Market Activation Plan (NCMAP) and serves as a member of the Presidential Committee on Climate Action and Green Economic Solutions, as well as the Presidential Steering Committee on Project Evergreen.

Mr. Shelleng, who is a chartered stockbroker (ACS) and Associate member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments (CISI) UK, has served in leading roles across multiple financial institutions, and was Head of Business Development for the Nigeria Mortgage Refinance Company PLC (NMRC) before his appointment as Senior Special Assistant to the President.